Meet the Couples of ‘Black Love’ Season 5: DeShun & Dwight
With the return of Black Love on OWN, Friday, May 14th, we're introducing the Black Love community to season 5 couple DeShun & Dwight.
With the return of Black Love on OWN, Friday, May 14th, we're introducing the Black Love community to season 5 couple DeShun & Dwight.
The series features 8 episodes that offer a range of perspectives through impactful conversations.
'Black Love' continues to share positive representations of healed love, second-chance love, and everything in between. Here's a look back at seven of my favorite moments from season 2.
This writer revisits 'Black Love' season 3 and reflects on the seven lessons he learned about building a healthy, long-lasting partnership.
The premiere of “Black Love” Season 4 is right around the corner and returning to our television screens on Saturday, September 5. As we wait in anticipation, let's look back to where it all started with Season 1.
Joy always knew she was supposed to marry Justin. They met in college and had been dating for over three years before she realized they needed to break up. See, she didn't want to break up with him — he was the love of her life — but she understood that Justin had a lot more maturing to do before he could commit to the type of relationship she required.
“Black Love” couples show that open and honest communication isn’t the only thing needed to get through hard times.
Does a man need to pursue a woman for the relationship to work? Contributor Toni-Ann Craft reflects on the "Black Love" season 3 premiere.
Writer and wife Raquelle Harris shares how the first two seasons of Black Love really helped prompt some crucial conversations between her and her husband
Season 3 of “Black Love” is just a few weeks away, and now the full trailer for the hit OWN docu-series has arrived!
Season 3 of "Black Love" returns on August 10th, and we have a first look at the full trailer here.
It's almost that time! Season 3 of "Black Love" returns on August 10th. Watch the new teaser!
To kick off season two of the BLACK LOVE series, producers and show creators Codie & Tommy Oliver invited couples from the series, including Sterling K. Brown & Ryan Michelle Bathe, and Devale & Khadeen Ellis, Tamia & Grant Hill, Kirk & Tammy Franklin, Taj & Eddie George and more for an exclusive Clips & Conversation event.
Welcome to blacklove.com! Two years ago, my husband, Tommy, and I created the Black Love television series which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network. It has meant the world to me to be able to travel with my husband to city after city talking to married couples about their relationships and their journeys through love. What happens when we do not see ourselves positively represented in entertainment and in the media is that we believe what we are told about who we are. It was so important to me to impact that narrative, that we created the series with our own money and edited the first season at our dining room table –– before OWN picked it up. We will forever be indebted to the couples who told us their stories without knowing what the end result would be. And even through that beautiful journey, we always knew that the show was just one small glimpse into our love stories. With that truth in our heart, my husband and I, along with our incredible team, have now created blacklove.com, a new space to gather and share even more of our stories. Black Love features married couples talking about what it takes to make a marriage work, but it doesn’t take long to realize that “success” in relationships requires a lot of us. It requires maturity. It requires perspective. It requires patience, forgiveness, compromise, humility, and self-love. If we’re lucky we develop those traits long before we meet “the one” –– but it’s never too late to be the happiest, healthiest version of yourself. Photographer: Christian Adkins II With this in mind, we hope we’ve created blacklove.com as a place where each of us can explore who we are even more deeply. Our backgrounds, our challenges, our pain, and our lessons connect us, but we are nothing if we do not learn from them. Tommy and I set out to build a place that is “360 degrees of Black love” –– as he puts it. We’ve gathered voices who inspire us and those we admire to share their journeys. Our aim is that these voices empower each of us to be the best version of ourselves and equip us with the tools and information mainstream media doesn’t tell us. Want an example? Start with the myth of the Black Marriage Crisis. You, our Black Love community, have been so generous with your feedback. You talk about Black Love, the series, on your social media, and when we’ve been on the road with Black Love, you have shown up in droves to tell us what it means to you. Please, don’t stop there. Check out blacklove.com, tell us what you love, what you hate (we can take it), and what you’d like to see. You can even become a contributor by submitting your own story. Together we can provide a healthy foundation for our relationships and our families. With so much love, Codie Elaine Oliver @codieco
Devale and Khadeen Ellis talk with several couples about everything from managing finances to gender roles and share advice for married couples.